it is absolutely my pleasure to welcome you tonight's event featuring tomiko brown nagin talking about her newest book out recently called civil rights queen, constance baker motley and the struggle for equality. if you haven't yet purchased your copy of the book you are missing out. it is an incredible story about an incredible wochl you can find a link to purchase the book from atlanta history center in the chat. tonight it is 25% off. then we offer domestic u.s. shipping as well as in-store pickup if you are local to the atlanta area. we encourage you to support dean brown nagin and the book and purchase your copy from atlanta history center. again, tonight's guest is tomiko brown nagin, a dean, a professor of constitutional law at harvard law school and professor of history at harvard university's faculty of arts and sciences. she's appointed chair of the presidential committee on harvard and the legacy of slavery in 2019. and as a member of the american actually of arts and sciences, the american philosophical society and the american law institute. she has many other accolades wh

. >> it is called "civil rights queen" and dean tomiko brown-nagin, thank you for the conversation. i wish it could have been in person, but thank you. >> thank you, rose, i enjoyed i. >> claire, all yours. >> thank you so much for such an intriguing conversation and what an incredible woman, incredible life. kind of hard to believe it was just one life, how much she did during it. so dean tomiko brown-nagin, thank you for your scholarship and all of the countless hours of work that went into the book. i can't even imagine. >> thank you, claire, for having me. i appreciate it. >>> weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday, american history tv documents america's story and on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding comes from these television companies and more, including cox. >>> cox is committed to providing eligible families access to affordable internet through the connect and compete program, bridging the digital divide one connected and engaged student at a time. cox, bringing us closer. cox, along with these televisi

for more, i'm joined by tomiko brown-nagin. she's dean of the harvard radcliffe institute for advanced study, and she chaired the committee report. thank you for joining us. there are many specifics here in this report, but what's the key for you? is it how integral slavery was in the life and history of harvard? tomiko: i would say so. we documented both direct ownership or enslavement of human beings. we documented financial ties to the slave trade and to slave economies, and, finally, the intellectual production of ideologies that supported slavery, segregation and white supremacy. and so i would say the breadth d depth of the findings are significant. and, in particularthe direct ownership of more than 70 human beings was more than i would have anticipated. jeffrey: is there any one specific example that really surprised or even shocked you? tomiko: well, i wouldn't say shocked or surprised me, jeffrey. i would say that the reality of enslaved people being on campus, feeding our students, serving harvard presidents is quite

. >> it is called "civil rights queen" and dean tomiko brown-nagin, thank you for the conversation. i wish it could have been in person, but thank you. >> thank you, rose, i enjoyed i. >> claire, all yours. >> thank you so much for such an intriguing conversation and what an incredible woman, incredible life. kind of hard to believe it was just one life, how much she didt ladies dot c-span.org.

. >> it is called "civil rights queen" and dean tomiko brown-nagin, thank you for the conversation. i wish it could have been in person, but thank you. >> thank you, rose, i enjoyed i. >> claire, all yours. >> thank you so much for such an intriguing conversation and what an incredible woman, incredible life. kind of hard to believe it was just one life, how much she dido 22. 22 are you numerologists? and i'm daniel weinberg and we're at the studio broadcast studio on abraham lincoln book shop in chicago over zoom and facebook live. we are an 83 year olds antiquarian book shop specializing in american history specifically abraham lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency.

. >> it is called "civil rights queen" and dean tomiko brown-nagin, thank you for the conversation. i wish it could have been in person, but thank you. >> thank you, rose, i enjoyed i. >> claire, all yours. >> thank you so much for such an intriguing conversation and what an incredible woman, incredible life. kind of hard to believe it was just one life, how much she dido 22. 22 are you numerologists? and i'm daniel weinberg and we're at the studio broadcast studio on abraham lincoln book shop in chicago over zoom and facebook live. we are an 83